2010/7/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:55:00PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote: >> 2010/7/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: >> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:32:57PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote: >> >> I'm following / updating >> >> http://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Linode >> >> >> >> The current doc says "The bootstrap archives can be downloaded from >> >> minimal_install_archive [1]", however so far I haven't been able to >> >> actually find a root tarball downloadable under that URL. I'm probably >> >> just being blind; if someone can provide the exact URL to a known-good >> >> "minimal install archive" I'd appreciate it (and update the doc >> >> accordingly). >> > Instead of a root tarball, you will find a NAR archive. You will need nix >> > to >> > install that into your nix store, that must sit in /nix. >> > >> > If some can tell the mechanisms to put the tarballs downloadable in hydra, >> > I can try to >> > make them available. I guess some special files in a special directory of >> > the >> > output store path would do the trick for hydra to show a download link. >> > >> > (I'll investigate a bit) >> > >> > Regards, >> > Lluís. >> >> Ah, so I need to bootstrap nix packages (but not nixos) locally before >> bootstrapping nixos remotely. I usually work from a mipsel box, but I >> can go install nix packages on some other colo server running >> non-nixos GNU/Linux on x86_64 :-) > > In fact I just commited a change to allow the tarball download through the > web - > if hydra were doing its job (I think it's stuck somehow), you would have that > link in a while. > > OTH, you may be interested in the cross-building facilities in nixpkgs, and > maybe you want to port nixos (native build only) to mipsel? > > Nixos works fine on armv5tel (sheevaplug) for one year, so if you have enough > energy to play that game, let me know. > > About mipsel, I only own a OpenWRT system mipsel, where I cross-built nixpkgs > programs fine. But that machine cannot stand a native build easily :)
If that's all that is holding you back, my company has a developer's program; we could send you (or another interested NixOS community member) a faster mipsel box for free - if interested send me your address and phone # (needed by shippers) off-list. I actually have a bunch of the type of machine I'd send you in a cluster, but haven't had time to do config in it yet; plans are to set it up to do distributed compiles using icecream [1]. Does Nix's compile farm software do icecream/distcc type distributed compiling stuff? [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream Happy Hacking, -- \|/ Daniel JB Clark | Activist; Owner FREEDOM -+-> INCLUDED ~ http://freedomincluded.com /|\ Free Software respecting hardware _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
